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Google's new quantum computer may launch an AI arms race

And today's digital computing will give way to something 100 million times faster

Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 05:50

The D-Wave 2X quantum computer, developed by Google in collaboration with Nasa, can complete within seconds complicated calculations that may take a digital computer 10,000 years.

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EVER since the 1980s, researchers have been working on the development of a quantum computer that would be exponentially more powerful than any of the digital computers that exist today. And now Google, in collaboration with Nasa, says it has a quantum computer - the D-Wave